>>38547709>My parents even voted for him. It's funny because here I talked with many people from previous generations and no one admitted that their voted for Yeltsin but everyone like to yell how he and Gorbachev single handed ruined everything.

>>38547779He had a noticable Georgian accent and wasn't very good at delivering speeches. The only time he tried to travel across the country with a public campaign he got ridiculed by goddamn farmers.

Regions where most people live voted for commies. Yeltsin was voted for in Moscow (liberals) and depopulated regions like Chukotka where it was easier to fake votes because too few people to properly oversee the process.

>>38547970May be but Russians are masters of this thing.I mean when you said >15 years later Putler supporters will also all deny itI almost giggled, 2-3 years at max. This happened only 3 years after Stalin's death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cult_of_Personality_and_Its_Consequencesand Putin are nowhere near Stalin at that moment.

>>38548020https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Zyuganov>Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros, along with Russian oligarchs such as Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Anatoly Chubais, and others feared a Communist resurgence in Russia while witnessing Zyuganov present himself as a kinder, gentler Communist while attending the World Economic Forum at Davos in 1996. Chubais recalled, stating "I saw many of my good friends, presidents of major American companies, European companies, who were simply dancing around Zyuganov, trying to catch his eye, peering at him. These were the world's most powerful businessmen, with world famous names, who with their entire appearance demonstrated that they were seeking support of the future president of Russia, because it was clear to everyone that Zyuganov was going to be the future president of Russia, and now they needed to build a relationship with him. So, this shook me up!" The oligarchs set aside their differences and held several private meetings in Davos hotel rooms, where they strategized over how to defeat the perceived Zyuganov threat. The result was the "Davos pact", an agreement between Chubais and the oligarchs that he would lead an anti-Communist campaign against Zuyganov, that they agreed to fund. The subsequent months saw a massive media offensive as "money poured into advertising campaigns, into regional tours, into bribing journalists", all supported by the oligarchs whom owned the major media. Yeltsin's subsequent victory in that election can be traced back to the events that took place in Davos between Chubais and those Russian oligarchs.

>>38548031it was 1996, the military wouldn't be the main factor since Army was half-dead, Yeltsin wasn't even sure about his closest entourage, like Korjakov (and he was right)according to researches that were conducted (much later) among those who were close to Yeltsin in 1995-1996, he was paranoid about his "inevitable lose"

>>38548097>it was 1996, the military wouldn't be the main factor since Army was half-dead, He did get them to illegally shell the Supreme Soviet 3 years ago. You don't need an army to be super-competent to shoot at civilians.

>>38548058Except Kruschov's speech about Stalin being evil was a closed session and it was kind of like half-secret. Kruschov obvsly did it for his own gain, he was himself part of the NVKD's troika, he just blamed everything on Stalin to deflect attention from himself.

There were riots in Georgia who were proud of having a Georgian in the govt and being upset that his legacy is dismantled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Georgian_demonstrations

So it's not like people change opinions every 3 years, it's more subtle than that.

>>38548020>it's well-known that he lost the 1996 elections to Zyuganov It's a meme. Yeltsin's campaign was pretty effective during 2nd tour and motivated many people who didn't participated in 1st tour..

We did not capitalism, but a fight against communism.Each sold plant, (expensively, cheap, for free, with surcharge) is a nail in a coffin of communism.We did it for formation of oligarchs, which will not allow the Communists to win.And the election of 1996 is our victory

>>38547921It was 1928, he went on a campaign to promote bread tax on large farming households. Farmers were expected to donate a part of their harvest to the government in support of industrialization. So he went to Siberia, which was a stronghold of independent farming since like forever, especially since the 1900s reforms. At one point Stalin's delegation visited a village near Omsk, trying to convince the people how important it was to donate harvest to the state. And then a guy from the crowd shouts from to Stalin "Okay, how about you dance lezginka to us and then we think about giving you our bread". The crowd goes crazy. Ayy, lmao, look at him, a churka is begging us for bread, hilarious. Stalin's butt never recovered. During the next few years millions of households were robbed by the Communist party activists and forced into joining state-owned collective farms, the wealthiest farmers ended up in the Gulag camps.

>>38547824Decades of overspending on defense, economic mismanagement, antagonizing the rest of the world, and keeping the populace in poverty ruined everything. (Guess who's doing precisely the same thing now?) Gorbachov just happened to be there when the bottom fell out. Yeltsin took up the torch as best he could.